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«Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.»
«COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.»
«Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.»
«Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.»
«Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Duty, Praise | Keywords: Duties of, not due, praising
«Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.»
«May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy»
«If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.»
«Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.»
«Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.»
Author: Will Rogers | Keywords: claims, due, Lincoln, not due, Ohio, Taft

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